Create a plan to facilitate survival of embryos. Should it be necessary in the future, rather than allowing embryos to...

Restrict use of fire retardants around aquatic sites; Prescribed burns should not be conducted at times when amphibians could be...

Conduct research to determine best land management practices, especially involving cattle grazing, aquatic connectivity, and seasonal movement patterns as well...

Conduct timber management activities after amphibians have entered their overwintering sites, e.g., after mid October.

Maintain and restore natural hydrological characteristics; do not alter hydroperiods of water bodies to provide water for livestock; do not...

Avoid new water diversions if habitat would be affected.

Leave springs (frog hibernation areas) undeveloped, including the outflow streams (which serve as movement corridors).

Protect beavers from trapping; reintroduce beavers in areas where a need for dam-building activities of beavers has been identified; beaver-induced...

Identify, restore and/or enhance, and manage areas of historic unoccupied and potential Columbia spotted frog habitat within the presumed historic...

Determine the distribution of breeding populations of Columbia Spotted Frog.

Identify and protect critical terrestrial habitats (e.g., movement zones, and seasonally wet areas that are not identified as “wetlands”) as...

Protect permanent ponds and river and stream habitat within at least 500 m of breeding ponds.